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Sacrifice and Spirit: A Literary Salon

Emmanuel Gallery is currently hosting a powerful exhibition by the artist, activist, and poet Tenzing Rigdol, titled "My World Is in Your Blind Spot." To connect thematically to Rigdol's art, our literary salon is titled "Sacrifice and Spirit: A Literary Salon," and will involve brief readings (poetry, brief prose--fiction or non-fiction--or drama) of approximately five minutes on the theme of sacrifice and/or spirit. For more information, please email Dr. Craig Svonkin. To be a reader, please email Dr. Svonkin by Wed., May 1.

Free Admission

Tues., May 7, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Emmanuel Gallery

A Conversation with Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange, Photo by Elena Seibert

Free Admission

Tues., April 2, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. St. Cajetan's

Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestseller There There, a multi-generational story about the ives of urban Native Americans. Orange is an enrolled member of the Cherokee and Arapahoe tribes of Oklahoma.